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Friday, March 25, 2011

This video shows my virtual machines from my production servers running during the weekend.
The weekend part is important.
During weekend, no user will login to the windows domain servers, no user will have it's outlook open (and since exchange is not proxing accounts, no action whatsoever will happen), no one will use Sharepoint server too, so no webserver and Database hits will occur.
So why is it so important?
Because all of my windows servers are idling... and that's perceptible on the video by the extreme low mhz usage on the green graphic on the right of each machine.

The linux machines however are working very hard.
The webserver in ubuntu 64 running Jrun4 and Coldfusion9 is running jobs every minute and at each it's processing 500 mails on a HALF A MILLION mails database.
The same database, registering the sending, is running on another Ubuntu server 32bit on an MySQL instance and the same server runs a SAP MaxDB Instance.

Windows, though in IDLE is consuming an average of 700Mb/ machine.
The linux under heavy load is consuming amost a gigabite on the webserver running a webserver + a 500mb java virtual machine to support the coldfusion.
The linux database is having all the hits from the mailing list on the MySQL instance and oscillates between 300 and 400Mb.

Conclusion is that a well design kernel and operating system, will consume under heavy load, IN AVERAGE, just about the same as a poorly designed kernel and operating system IDLING.

Now add the price tag.... how much for the linux? ZIP, NADA, NOTHING... how about windows?

Thinking clear already?

I.T.Managers all over the world : LEARN TO DO YOUR JOBS and start thinking. The real cost of I.T.Investment goes way beyond the "Windows buys me time" crap.... your job is more than just clicking NEXT and stupid installation wizards, you know?

Microsoft Does have some excellent products. I do recommend Office2003 and 2010 (forget about the 2007), and I recommend even more Microsoft Project 2003 and the new brilliant 2010...but I make my I.T. choices based on value for money, instead of brand and amount of wizards available to mask my lack of knowledge.
Don't get me wrong. I DO USE Microsoft. I DO LIKE some of their products. It's just like a car brand. I LOVE the HONDA S2000 and the HONDA NSX and the HONDA CIVIC Type-R... and I ALSO HATE every car they sell today. I mean, there is nothing good coming from honda cars these days.
I have the same approach with computers. I hate some Linux flavours, I hate some Linux features.
To My point of view, back when Apple decided to use the freeBSD kernel and built an GUI on top of it, Microsoft should have done the same, instead of going ANTI-OPENSOURCE.

The Windows-Linux battle have long been occurring all over the world. Do I take a side on the battle?
Can't say I don't. I'm a Linux Guy.

I do understand that people find Linux difficult, but this it the software companies fault. Linux in essence is much better than Windows... the problem is that YOU WILL HAVE TO RUN BOTH in order to be always productive... and having only Windows, you'll be able to do everything without needing Linux.

It's a very sad truth. Linux is being unsupported on purpose by major software companies... and some of them should know better (like Adobe for instance now being Kicked by Apple, when it's their software that helped make the apple brand.).

Anyway, I don't hate windows... I hate the company policy behind it and it's way of killing competition in order to monopolize....it's something that I sincerely hate (I'm talking about that crusade against Open-source back when they were going wayyy wrong with Vista). And much like I hate monopolization, every one should have the same thoughts. You see, market monopolization kills market concurrency and diversity. We have evolved due to need to adapt to adversity and it's the same about markets. If a company has a bad product and there are other company's out there doing a good job, the company with the bad product must evolve and get better to stay n the game. Killing this is a bad thing, hence my hating for market monopolizers.

To me, Windows is just a product... not a brilliant one, far from perfect, with a good example of implementation every now and then, but not the worse I've seen from Microsoft. It is however a bad operating system.
Why do I state that? What is an operating System?
In essence, the BEST PART OF WINDOWS is not being a good operating system. It's bloated, big, heavy on the hardware, unstable and expensive.
Windows is however a brilliant GUI and tool set.

Back when Microsoft decided to kill the XP and start the Longhorn, later VISTA project, they should have an introspection.
Microsoft should have asked it self WHAT DO WE DO BEST? There is an easy answer: WE BUILD GOOD GUI's and tools to cope.
Then they should choose a good and stable OpenSource kernel, and work their way through it.
Does this sound familiar? Are you thinking Apple? You should!
Apple did that and then they grabbed a FreeBSD kernel and built an excellent GUI and tool set, calling it OSX and making a BANG.

I'm not going to explain the details of Microsoft's terrible judgement on the Longhorn-vista project set... just going to explain that Microsoft's "today Europe, tomorrow the world" Hitlerian battle, lead it into a dead end.
Statements like "open source is a security flaw" and "open source kills professionalism and induces amateurism", made Microsoft the flagship of the Anti-OpenSource. Evidently, they then HAD to carry it through, while apple just laughed their pants out on a brilliant and LIGHT crusade towards efficiency and hardware platform independence, while increasing profits like crazy.

Can you imagine a Windows GUI running on top of a Debian Kernel? Yup... no one would have stopped Microsoft then... ENTIRE teams could be re-sourced to new projects and software production would just go ballistic. No need to INVEST in kernel creation and stabilization. No need to patch the most important software in the machine on a daily basis, no more viruses and bluescreens... and a huge community worldwide, that today hates them and resists them, would have turned around and help them instead.

Stupidity and "world domination" has never been a good thing. And you know... Microsoft has done some amazing things over the years...it's such a shame that they got this Fight into a personal, irrational level.

The video I'm posting shows how a proper operating system works and handles load without fuss. It's obviously a linux ubuntu.